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I began to exist in the year 1844, in a small town in Tennessee, Eden.
There were no more than four hundred people there, including the slaves.
I was the personal property of Mr. Jennings, who was a well-polished
southern man. He was portly in build, lively in step, and dignified in
manner. Mr. Jennings was a good man. There was no disputing that.
Master Jennings had a small farm. We did not cultivate any cotton; we
raised corn, oats, hay and fruits. Most of Master Jennings' slaves were
hired out.
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1. The person relating this incident was
A. a member of the Jennings family
B. a slave
C. a freeman
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B
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B
(B) The narrator was a slave.
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B
My mother certainly had her faults as a slave. Ma fussed, fought,
and kicked all the time. I tell you, she was a demon. She said she
wouldn't be whipped, and when she fussed, all Eden must have known it.
She was loud and boisterous, and it seemed to me that you could hear her a
mile away. Father was often the prey of her high temper. With all her
ability for work, she did not make a good slave. She was too high-
spirited and independent.
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1. According to this passage, the mother was not a good slave for
all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A. she was loud
B. she was lazy
C. she fought
D. she had a temper
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C
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C
(B) She was not lazy.
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C
I was the oldest child. My mother had three children by the time
I was six years old. It was at this age that I remember the almost daily
talks of my mother on the cruelty of slavery. I would say nothing to her,
but I was thinking all the time that slavery did not seem so cruel.
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1. The child's mother
A. was ashamed to be a slave
B. was glad her children were not slaves
C. felt the child did not understand slavery
D. wanted her children to be good slaves
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D
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D
(C) The mother wanted the child to realize how cruel slavery really was.
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D
One day my mother's temper ran wild. For some reason Mistress
Jennings struck her with a stick. Ma struck back and a fight followed.
I have never been able to figure out the why of the whole thing. My mother
was in a rage for two days, and when Pa asked her about it and told her
that she shouldn't have done it. Pa heard Mr. Jennings say that Fannie
would have to be whipped by law. He told Ma. Two mornings afterwards, two
men came in at the big gate, one with a long lash in his hand. I was in the
yard and I hoped they couldn't find Ma.
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1. The cause of the mother's rage was
A. Mistress Jennings' temper
B. never clear to the child
C. her husband
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E
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E
(B) The child never knew why her mother had gone into a rage.
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E
To my surprise, I saw her running around the house, straight in the
direction of the men. She must have seen them coming. I should have
known that she wouldn't hide. She knew what they were coming for, and she
intended to meet them halfway. She swooped upon them like a hawk on
chickens. I believe they were afraid of her or thought she was crazy.
Mr. Jennings came and pulled her away. I don't know what would have
happened if he hadn't come at that moment, for one man had already pulled
his gun out.
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1. Fannie ran toward the two men
A. to protect her mother
B. to frighten them away
C. because she refused to be whipped but knew she couldn't hide from them
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F
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F
(C) She couldn't hide, but she refused to be whipped.
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F
That evening Mistress Jennings came down to the cabin. She stopped
at the door and called my mother. Ma came out.
"Well Fannie," she said, "I'll have to send you away. You won't be
whipped, and I'm afraid you'll get killed. They have to knock you down
like a beef."
"I'll go to hell or anywhere else, but I won't be whipped."
"You can't take the baby, Fannie."
My mother said nothing at this. About a week later, she told me
that she and Pa were going to leave the next day, that they were going to
Memphis. She didn't know for how long.
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1. Fannie could not take the baby because it was the property of the
Jennings.
A. True
B. False
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G
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G
(A) The baby was the Jennings' property.
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G
Thus my mother and father were hired to Tennessee. Yes, Ma had been
right. Slavery was chuck full of cruelty and abuse. During this time I
decided to follow my mother's example. I intended to fight, and if I
couldn't fight, I'd kick; and if I couldn't kick, I'd bite.
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1. This passage, "My mother Was the Smartest Black Women in Eden," is so
titled because the mother always told her daughter that slavery was cruel.
A. True
B. False
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H
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H
(A) She taught her that slavery was cruel.
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